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Languages Represented:
English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Letterpress copy books of University Librarian, Joseph Cummings Rowell, 308e.l, University Archives,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

These letterpress copy books were kept by Joseph Cummings Rowell from 1878 to 1904. Many of the volumes had slips inserted
commenting on interesting developments for the history of the library. Unfortunately these slips were in danger of harming
the bindings of the volumes, so it was decided to remove them. It seemed a shame, however, to discard them without making
some effort to preserve the information that had been so laboriously gathered.

Date references were added to the slips and this list of comments was created from the annotated slips. In some cases the
document in question was not dated, so the preceding date was used, with the letter 'f' for 'following.' Often the slips had
page references (there are printed page numbers on each sheet of the volumes); these have been retained and must be used in
conjunction with the date span of the surrounding references since the volumes are not numbered. In addition, most volumes
came with index pages, and these were often used by Rowell himself to index each volume as he went along.

It was May Dornin, archivist from 1945 to 1964 who made these comments. The comments on the slips were typed, but occasional
handwritten notes also appear, in her handwriting. Miss Dornin had known and worked for Rowell before his death in 1938, and
her personal knowledge of and respect for him shows through in some of the comments.